T_Clark

Thanks for the clarification.

I guess I misunderstood your question. I gave an example of a very complex system that emerged from many interacting subsystems with massive interconn...

How do we know about early language and how it developed. It was my understanding that all languages which have been encountered, no matter how primit...

Let's forget about my experience of my own consciousness for a minute. The only way I can know about another person's internal experience, consciousne...

I recognize this is a cliche, but I think tools to mechanical devices to electrical devices to electronic devices to electronic devices using transist...

Here's a link to the list: https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/680631 On in particular got my hackles up - "The eternal soul (Vitalism):...

I read through the abstract and introduction of the article you linked. I don't see this as a philosophical question at all. It's a series of unanswer...

Here on the forum, atheists. I haven't seen any sectarian prejudice here. My posts have been about posters here on the forum. In the world, sectarian ...

Here on the forum certainly. In the world at large.... sometimes.

I'm using this thread to get my opinion across to them and others, just as you did. This whole thread was set up as a polemic to influence the moderat...

That wasn't the point you were making. What you ask for is much broader. It bothers me that the moderators, who have such knee-jerk reactions to any h...

Congratulations on your success in promoting bigotry here on the forum.

I have five posts on this page. They were all civil and substantive. Many of the others also were.

Although there is a lot of crap here on the forum, including a lot of religion crap, I have been impressed with the quality of some of the religion-re...

As I've noted here before, atheism and religion are the only topics where bigotry is encouraged on the forum.

I'm a bit confused about the reference to me in this. I do agree with @"Wayfarer" that the vitalism thread was a worthwhile one.

I don't think you can have a full discussion of metaphysics without including religion.

This is a really good point. There's a lot of science and pseudo-science on here, but you don't see much about cracking down on scientific posts that ...

Here's what I wrote in a previous post. A priori generally refers to knowledge. When I say "hardwired" I'm talking about motivation, values, feelings....

No, it's based on the assumption of common human motivation. You have misstated my position. No, I'm not. As I've said, at it's most basic, morality i...

Agreed.

I don't know that you and I disagree. As I wrote, there is a sense in which it is objective. That means there's another sense in which it is subjectiv...

As I wrote in my first post in this thread: If morality is, as I claim, a reflection of human nature, there is a sense in which it is objective. It's ...

I stand corrected. This is what they call "logic," right? Finally it all starts to make sense to me.

I think our morality is different, and should be different, from laws and rules imposed by authorities. I think all formal moral philosophy is metaphy...

Most of us here are amateurs. Many of us have not read much philosophy. I started a thread about how you don't have to read philosophy to be a philoso...

@"Isaac" posted this link: I haven't read it yet, but I'm going to.

I don't think you and I are saying the same thing. Definition is defined as a written or spoken statement of the meaning of a word or phrase. It seems...

I'm not sure there is any correlation between appendix size and body size. I think my best guess would be greater than 14 inches tall.

Science has learned a lot since the 1700s and the questions we ask have changed, but I don't see that the fundamentals of epistemology have changed.

I think you're being as rigid as you claim Kant is.

Doesn't matter what Kant would do, it matters what he suggests we should do. People don't generally discount the American Declaration of Independence ...

The human appendix averages 9 cm (3.5 in) in length but can range from 5 to 35 cm (2.0 to 13.8 in).

As I indicated in my post, the thing I like about Kant's formulation is that it puts the responsibility on me. Perhaps he interpreted it rigidly, alth...

I think "self-awareness" is the right word. Intellectual contemplation is what I do. I don't try to do it. I don't will myself to do it. I just do it....

Thank you.

And back to Kant. He gave his categorical imperative three formulations. I think this one is particularly relevant to this discussion - "Act only acco...

If anyone is interested, there are other versions on the web which might be accessible there in Timbuktu.

The opening post was very scattershot, all over the place. Lots of seemingly unrelated questions. So I'll just pick the one I'm interested in answerin...

I've been as clear as I can be. This was the question I was responding to: I don't see how your question is relevant.

This is from Austin City Limits - "Don't Think Twice" by Susan Tedeschi. The violin solo always sends shivers down my spine. https://www.youtube.com/w...

I identify human nature as one, and probably the most important, of the sources of morality. As I noted, we are social. We like each other. We have em...

Hey, PR. Howze about you respond to some of the responses to your post.

I've just started reading this and I'm enjoying it a lot.

I did read "Gormenghast" finally. I was....disappointed isn't the right word, but it didn't have the magic for me that "Titus Groan" did. While readin...

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Whenever I hear anyone complaining about the quality of books I always want to say - We get to choose from 5,000 years of written works. There are ten...

Thanks.

Here's a link to a review I did. https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/642269

You clearly once were though. Any in particular?